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Signor Ferrero is a graduate of the University of Bologna. He is famous especially for his history, "The Greatness and Decline of Rome," the fourth volume of which has just been published and translated into English and French. Two years ago he delivered a series of lectures at the "College de France" in Paris, which were remarkable for his vivid treatment of past events. His history deals with the subject form a modern point of view and in modern terms...
...LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF CLASSICAL STUDIES. V. "Eighteenth Century: The English Period." Professor Morgan. Harvard...
...former collection of such books, and probably gives the College Library the largest number of these early works of any public library in the country. Next to the classics in numbers come the works of the mediaeval Latin writers. There are also many standard works in French and English, as well as numerous curious and rare volumes...
...material in the current number of the Monthly divides itself pretty sharply into two classes, one normal, the other artificial. In the first class the two editorials dealing with the late Professor Norton and the resignation of President Eliot merit decided praise. They express in clear and judicious English the appreciation and gratitude that Harvard has for these two men--one the wise and brilliant guide to the beauty of the past, the other the national leader in the advance towards intellectual freedom. In the "normal" class also belongs Mr. Grandgent's story, "The 'Medomac'." This is a thoroughly healthy...
...magazines and periodicals received will be distributed among hospitals, reading-rooms and charity homes. The text-book loan library in Brooks House is supplied with books acquired in this collection and especially needs those books used in large courses such as History 1, Government 1, Economics 1, and English A, as the demand for these is the greatest...